Write Around Portland’s mission is to change lives through the power of writing. Write Around Portland holds free creative writing workshops in hospitals, prisons, schools, treatment centers, low income residences, homeless shelters and social service agencies. Write Around Portland workshops are based on respect, writing and community. Three times a year, Write Around Portland publish books of participants’ writing and organize readings where participants share their writing with each other and with the greater community.
Attending the Willamette Writers Conference for Write Around Portland is Eric Oman Callahan.
Callahan is a writer from Portland, OR who explores themes of family, grief, and desire through short fiction. He is a MFA graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Eric has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his stories have appeared in ANMLY, Fourteen Hills, and Michigan Quarterly Review Online, among others.
Learn more at https://www.writearound.org/.